Greek Quotes - Page 29

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

G. H. Hardy

Real, Science, Understanding

G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

Benjamin Rush

Education, Country, Europe

"Letters".

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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Education, Reading, Writing

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We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

Harry S. Truman

Country, Religious, Civilization

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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Fall, Failing

William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.745, Wordsworth Editions

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One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykólakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, 'They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far,' pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to American.

Richard Mercer Dorson

Country, Crazy, Ocean

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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

Barack Obama

Book, Mind Blowing, Gita

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

G. H. Hardy

Clever, School, Boys

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Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Deborah Wiles

Baseball, Art, Drama

Deborah Wiles (2016). “The Aurora County All-Stars”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Robert Foster Bennett

Funny, Success, Giving

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One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Carl Van Vechten

Art, Cat, Enough

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The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."

Salomon Bochner

Knowledge, Mean, Science

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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded.

Corinne Heline

Inspiration, Order, Civilization

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If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

Mary Fairfax

Wisdom, Giving, Use

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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

Catharine MacKinnon

Christian, Men, Feminist

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In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.

David Hurn

Photography, Art, Real

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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

Ambrose

Men, Blood, Differences

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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

Uta Hagen

Women, Moving, Taken

Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein...
That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.

John Brunner

Confused, Believe, Son

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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

Swami Vivekananda

Religious, Two, Political

Swami Vivekananda (2003). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Jean Baudrillard

Country, Laughter, Taken

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself spiritually or rationally destitute or retarded when this corrupts the whole quality of the culture that we all together need and depend on? If anyone wants a cloistered and closed-minded life, an anti-aristic life, let him either go off and live among the wolves-or else join the community of like-minded idiots that (alas) compose and define the basic terms of modern society.

Kenny Smith

Spiritual, Philosophy, Men

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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

Immanuel Kant

War, Men, Order

Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Lord Acton

Children, Men, Citizens

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

Names, Good Questions, Answers

The Guardian, January 25, 1990.

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